Steinbeck uses the word choice to help add details to his tone of the article. He feels that migrant workers are often overlooked for the work that they do. By adding word choices such as ...(find your own examples of the word choice)... Steinbeck is able to convince the reader to feel a certain way about these migrant workers and add to his original point. Don't copy exactly what I said please, but hope that makes sense ;)
Sounds a bit like Christine- Also a novel by Stephen King
Answer: B. Salt and rust are corrosives that have damaging effects on a city’s infrastructure.
Explanation: in a text, a main idea is important information that tells more about the overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text. In the given excerpt from "The City Without Us” by Alan Weisman we can see the description of how the salt used on the roadways on winter, is very corrosive because it eats steel, and it also says that with no people, there won't be salt, but there will be rust which is also corrosive. According to this information, the main idea of the paragraph is best represented by option B: Salt and rust are corrosives that have damaging effects on a city’s infrastructure.
